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Some photos and random notes from a recent trip to Vancouver. One. A woman on the sky train, she’s angry with the airline because she left her phone in the departure lounge and they’re not being too helpful in getting it back to her, so she says. She’s had enough, she says, and there’s no bloody way she’s paying $7 to take the sky train downtown. Two. Staying at the YWCA hotel, a little budget-wise, so plenty of young travellers. Do […]

Day. Light. Savings.Just after the Gold Rush, just before the Zombie Armageddon. You’ll be awake then, you’ll be lucid and free from concerns. You’ll forget you were ever once worried about global warming, Winter tires, nest eggs. It’s one of those crucial moments in life, like when you lean too far back in your chair, away from the spreadsheets and the deliverables, and you’re just perfectly balanced there in the moment, flirting with disaster. A lot of things can happen […]

Time, apparently, does not exist. So begins this fascinating podcast the other day – the latest ramblings of deep thinkers and quantum physicists, thought-provoking challenges to shiver the timbers of our safe, orderly world view. Or something. i.e., What a load of useless crap. I shouldn’t say that. Don’t get me wrong. I’m happy for the deep thinkers. They’re mostly harmless and they seem largely content – delighted, even – to shovel clouds with one another, deny the ticking of […]

Harps and strings, birdsongs. One of those rare mornings where weird and minor chords ease you from dream to breakfast and you don’t think to recall what day it is or what yesterday might have to do with today. The clock offers crude advice, but it’s the sundial through the window tells you how to begin. A little shy and sad of eye Later, but you don’t know or care exactly when, it’s that feeling you get when you suddenly […]

One. They were six. The four kids, hers and his combined. Some part of them both made a weak effort to rationalize the whole thing, to say that it had seemed like a good idea at the time – but the truth was that neither of them believed that. No, it had been a bad idea from the start, and they both knew it. Two. The endless succession of road trips across Canada had taught her one thing: to really […]

It’s called the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon. That’s the one where you hear a word or phrase that strikes you as uncommon, and then you hear it again maybe later the same day, or the next. Immediately, it strikes you that obscure and paranormal forces are at work, casting these words upon your path to clue you toward spiritual enlightenment of some kind, or maybe to ready you for the zombie armageddon. Who knows? Always in motion is the future… Yoda said […]

MUNGO. 1. Patron saint of the city of Glasgow. 2. Cheap felted fabric made from waste wool. 3. A dumpster diver – one who extracts valuable things from trash. 4. A river in New Zealand. 5. A town and municipality in Huambo Province in Angola. 6. Mongolian monetary unit worth one hundredth of a tugrik (well, “mongo”) The word has beautiful appeal, doesn’t it? All definitions I’ve found, the above. I think I like #3 the most. Something about the […]